"Ban Bossy" -- a new campaign to empower young women (1 Viewer)

[Jules Winnfield]

Can a guy still be bossy?

Only this man

 

[Riversco]

I never associated the word bossy with women. All this time I thought it could apply to either sex.

 

[Binky The Doormat]

Women treat other "leading" women differently. Finding them and Calling them bossy, pushy, bitchy, et al.

Very hard for them to overcome and not a fault of simple words and phrases being used.

Do you think it's because it takes the crutch away from women who have not made it in their careers (or not made careers in the first place for themselves) that they can't climb the corporate ladder in this day in age?

That's what I sort of speculate is the case here.

I speculate that rather than embrace someone like Sandberg's career success as a pioneer...Sandberg is rather viewed as a threat to the mantra that Men keep women down in the workplace or prevent women from leading in theircareers...so let's tear her down, because we can push back against men on this topic, but it would be much harder for women to do so against another successful woman.

The young lady I work with says it's because women don't like women. She says loves working here because it is an almost exclusively male work group and men are easier to work with than women. None of the catty bull#### that comes with an office full of women.

Yeah, but I'll bet she is one of those women that other women hate. Kind of self-fulfilling deal situation.

My wife sniffs'em out immediately and believes this kind of woman is a "cheatin' man stealer." (my words for effect ...not her's )

 

[NCCommish]

Women treat other "leading" women differently. Finding them and Calling them bossy, pushy, bitchy, et al.

Very hard for them to overcome and not a fault of simple words and phrases being used.

Do you think it's because it takes the crutch away from women who have not made it in their careers (or not made careers in the first place for themselves) that they can't climb the corporate ladder in this day in age?

That's what I sort of speculate is the case here.

I speculate that rather than embrace someone like Sandberg's career success as a pioneer...Sandberg is rather viewed as a threat to the mantra that Men keep women down in the workplace or prevent women from leading in theircareers...so let's tear her down, because we can push back against men on this topic, but it would be much harder for women to do so against another successful woman.

The young lady I work with says it's because women don't like women. She says loves working here because it is an almost exclusively male work group and men are easier to work with than women. None of the catty bull#### that comes with an office full of women.

Yeah, but I'll bet she is one of those women that other women hate. Kind of self-fulfilling deal situation.

My wife sniffs'em out immediately and believes this kind of woman is a "cheatin' man stealer." (my words for effect ...not her's )

Yeah she is attractive and that seems to be all it takes.

 

[Black Box]

Banned

 

[Insein]

When you are really the boss you don't have to go around telling everyone you are the boss.

How would people know if you don't tell them?

Gently place your balls on their head. They'll know.

 

[TwinTurbo]

Who actually funds campaigns like this? Also if you the type of person that is worried about what names others call you, then you will never be a good leader. Bossy isn't gender specific. Also Tina Fey is bossypants and who doesn't like her?

 

[-jb-]

Who actually funds campaigns like this? Also if you the type of person that is worried about what names others call you, then you will never be a good leader. Bossy isn't gender specific. Also Tina Fey is bossypants and who doesn't like her?

I did a google image search of bossypants. She is apparently the only definition of it. Don't know that I've ever seen an image search result like this.

 

[belljr]

My wife works in a small all woman office...

The crap I have to listen too about what goes on...it's mind numbing. And yes for as "normal" as she is ...she get caught up in it too.

 

[MaxThreshold]

My wife works in a small all woman office...

The crap I have to listen too about what goes on...it's mind numbing. And yes for as "normal" as she is ...she get caught up in it too.

When I was much younger I worked in a "clean room" at a printing company where it was all women working on the presses (about 5 of them). My job was to go from press to press helping out all day long. I could only take one month of it before I asked for a transfer. It wasn't the job, it was the women. Each one constantly talked about the others. That was all they ever did. I had to leave to retain my sanity.

Not saying this goes on everywhere, but I can certainly relate to your post.

 

[Smack Tripper]

My wife works in a small all woman office...

The crap I have to listen too about what goes on...it's mind numbing. And yes for as "normal" as she is ...she get caught up in it too.

When I was much younger I worked in a "clean room" at a printing company where it was all women working on the presses (about 5 of them). My job was to go from press to press helping out all day long. I could only take one month of it before I asked for a transfer. It wasn't the job, it was the women. Each one constantly talked about the others. That was all they ever did. I had to leave to retain my sanity.

Not saying this goes on everywhere, but I can certainly relate to your post.

Did you bang any before leaving?

 

[MaxThreshold]

My wife works in a small all woman office...

The crap I have to listen too about what goes on...it's mind numbing. And yes for as "normal" as she is ...she get caught up in it too.

When I was much younger I worked in a "clean room" at a printing company where it was all women working on the presses (about 5 of them). My job was to go from press to press helping out all day long. I could only take one month of it before I asked for a transfer. It wasn't the job, it was the women. Each one constantly talked about the others. That was all they ever did. I had to leave to retain my sanity.

Not saying this goes on everywhere, but I can certainly relate to your post.

Did you bang any before leaving?

Sadly, no.

2 of the 5 were definitely milf material.

 

[drummer]

What kind of an idiot does it take to try to ban a word? A Mod.

 

[Steve Tasker]

Not saying this goes on everywhere, but I can certainly relate to your post.

Actually, I think it might go on everywhere.

 

[jhib]

"If you look at the world, women do 66 percent of the work in the world. Woman produce 50 percent of the food. Women make 10 percent of the income and women own 1 percent of the property.

I thought those numbers sounded awfully fishy.

'Women Own 1% of World Property': A Feminist Myth that Won't Die

So it's too simple to say the famous facts are wrong. The burden of proof is not on us (me) to show they are wrong, but rather to point out that they were never demonstrably true, so we shouldn't use them. (I'm not sure the truth will set you free, but I'm pretty sure this won't, either.)

As an exercise, though, consider one of the facts. With a combination of arithmetic and basic knowledge of a few demographic orders of magnitude, it's straightforward to conclude that, whether or not women only received 10 percent of the world's income in the 1970s, they receive more than that now.

Here: In the U.S. in 2009, the 106 million women who had incomes averaged $29,700 each. I think that's $3.2 trillion. The whole world's gross domestic product—a rough measure of total income—is $58.1 trillion. So, it looks to me like U.S. women alone earn 5.4 percent of world income today. Ballpark, but you see the point.

 

[Slapdash]

Not saying this goes on everywhere, but I can certainly relate to your post.

Actually, I think it might go on everywhere.

Everywhere I've been...

 

[Otis]

What are we to do with the word "toots"?

 

[ffmercenary]

I couldn't think of a bigger waste of time for empowered women.

 

[JZilla]

I couldn't think of a bigger waste of time for empowered women.

like the one in your avatar, for instance

But really, I agree, this whole thing makes very little sense to me. Do they just want to be called "bully" like we call bossy males? Doesn't change much; it's still a very real, negative trait that needs to be recognized and cast off if you want to be an effective leader.

 

[fatguyinalittlecoat]

I couldn't think of a bigger waste of time for empowered women.

like the one in your avatar, for instance

But really, I agree, this whole thing makes very little sense to me. Do they just want to be called "bully" like we call bossy males? Doesn't change much, it's still a very real, negative trait that needs to be recognized and cast off if you want to be an effective leader.

"Ban Bossy" just seems like a gimmick to get some publicity. They aren't really trying to "ban" anything literally. If you go to the site it's all about promoting leadership in girls, blah blah blah. But if they called it the "Little Girls Leadership Initiative", it would get no media attention or public discussion.

 

[JZilla]

I couldn't think of a bigger waste of time for empowered women.

like the one in your avatar, for instance

But really, I agree, this whole thing makes very little sense to me. Do they just want to be called "bully" like we call bossy males? Doesn't change much, it's still a very real, negative trait that needs to be recognized and cast off if you want to be an effective leader.

"Ban Bossy" just seems like a gimmick to get some publicity. They aren't really trying to "ban" anything literally. If you go to the site it's all about promoting leadership in girls, blah blah blah. But if they called it the "Little Girls Leadership Initiative", it would get no media attention or public discussion.

I guess. I'm no expert but I feel like they could have found an approach that makes a little more sense and still gets people's attention. Like footballs in their ####.

 

[Sarnoff]

First comment in the comments section sums it up quite nicely:

TryNot2Get2Technical • 20 hours ago

Nothing says "bossy" more than BANNING a WORD just because YOU don't like it.

ETA: And the next one, agree with this completely as well:

Kaitlin Powell TryNot2Get2Technical • 11 hours ago

We will see more of this a set-up for Hillary Clinton in 2016. The liberals want to divide the country along gender lines, so they can get HIllary in... The gender issues have been somewhat quiet lately - but expect that to REALLY heat up.

Hillary has a lot of bullying in her past (from what ive read). Liberals need to re-frame the thinking so this will not be an election issue. If they can get the Country to NOT COMMENT on her actions over the last couple of decades (otherwise be labeled mysoginist) - then she will be setup for a victory.

Turns out the woman behind this campaign is a big Hillary donor. I could see it being a pre-emptive move to make discussing her attitude taboo.

 

[Slapdash]

I couldn't think of a bigger waste of time for empowered women.

like the one in your avatar, for instance

But really, I agree, this whole thing makes very little sense to me. Do they just want to be called "bully" like we call bossy males? Doesn't change much, it's still a very real, negative trait that needs to be recognized and cast off if you want to be an effective leader.

"Ban Bossy" just seems like a gimmick to get some publicity. They aren't really trying to "ban" anything literally. If you go to the site it's all about promoting leadership in girls, blah blah blah. But if they called it the "Little Girls Leadership Initiative", it would get no media attention or public discussion.

I guess. I'm no expert but I feel like they could have found an approach that makes a little more sense and still gets people's attention. Like footballs in their ####.

Sandberg is just being an attention whore and driving to drive up more book sales.

 

[-jb-]

I couldn't think of a bigger waste of time for empowered women.

like the one in your avatar, for instance

But really, I agree, this whole thing makes very little sense to me. Do they just want to be called "bully" like we call bossy males? Doesn't change much, it's still a very real, negative trait that needs to be recognized and cast off if you want to be an effective leader.

"Ban Bossy" just seems like a gimmick to get some publicity. They aren't really trying to "ban" anything literally. If you go to the site it's all about promoting leadership in girls, blah blah blah. But if they called it the "Little Girls Leadership Initiative", it would get no media attention or public discussion.

I guess. I'm no expert but I feel like they could have found an approach that makes a little more sense and still gets people's attention. Like footballs in their ####.

world-hunger solving approach if you ask me.

 

[Captain Quinoa]

Sure, Toots, I'll stop calling you 'Bossy'.

 

[Schlzm]

Sure, Toots, I'll stop calling you 'Bossy'.

Stop being so demandy there sugatits.Schlzm

 

[IvanKaramazov]

"We know that by middle school, more boys than girls want to lead," Sandberg said,

So what you're saying is, boys start to exhibit more dominance right around the time their testosterone levels increase. Fascinating. Tell me more.

 

[Clifford]

It's amazing the amount of effort that goes into ignoring our genetic programming.

 

[fatguyinalittlecoat]

It's amazing the amount of effort that goes into ignoring our genetic programming.

Male leaders are responsible for most of the crappy stuff that has happened in human history. Maybe we should let some chicks take control of stuff.

 

[Captain Quinoa]

It's amazing the amount of effort that goes into ignoring our genetic programming.

Male leaders are responsible for most of the crappy stuff that has happened in human history. Maybe we should let some chicks take control of stuff.

Stunning logic here

 

[Schlzm]

It's amazing the amount of effort that goes into ignoring our genetic programming.

Male leaders are responsible for most of the crappy stuff that has happened in human history. Maybe we should let some chicks take control of stuff.

Stunning logic here

Well there is the saying that behind every great man is a woman, so I think it's safe to assuem that all of these havok wreaking dudes were probably egged on by said woman.Schlzm

 

[Clifford]

If only we had a track record of females in power we could look at to see what would happen...